https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50916

--- Comment #28 from Markus Mohrhard <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Dennis Francis (ldcs.co.in) from comment #27)
> From table.hxx, and column.[hc]xx, it looks like each column is set as a
> fixed sized mdds mtv of MAXROWCOUNT.
> 
> http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sc/source/core/data/column.cxx#83
> 
> hence every single column in the table costs us memory space proportional to
> MAXROWCOUNT irrespective of the number of non empty data cells in that
> column.
> 
> Can't we set the initial number of elements of mtv's like maCells,
> maBroadcasters etc.. to a smaller value say INITROWCOUNT=100 in the ScColumn
> constructor and call mtv resize() only when we get a request to set a new
> data at a logical location (say 120) which is beyond the current capacity of
> the mtv (100) ?
> 
> If calling mtv resize(old_size + additional_space_needed) for every new data
> addition is suboptimal, can we do resize(old_size +
> k*additional_space_needed) where k is some heuristic measure of "expected
> growth" in space for that column from the saved history of previous calls to
> resize() ?

mdds is not the problem as mdds internally does not more or less what you
mentioned. Actually increasing the row limit is not a problem.

The problem is all the places where we iterate through each column.

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